The sky once broke. And the world has been bleeding ever since. Centuries after the Sundering shattered the Veil, the realms cling to fragile order, guarded by angels, ruled by faith, and haunted by the corruption festering beyond the Veilscar. Magic is no longer a gift. It is a risk. A whisper. A slow descent into something unrecognizable. She was raised to believe the Veil must be protected at all costs. To obey. To serve. To never question. But when a mission into the scarlands goes wrong, she survives something no one else does-and begins to feel the very force she was sworn to fear. Drawn between a future king forged in duty... and a Veil-touched power that should not exist... She will have to choose: Save the world as it is... Or become the reason it changes forever.

The Prince of England. A girl renowned for her status as an infamous contract wife. Bound by a forced union, they must abandon the comfort of their current situations, much to the chagrin of the public and their loved ones. This unblessed nuptial paves the way for animosity towards them, as interwoven truths and fabrications are brought to light. Surely, a marriage based on lies and deceit could not last, but things could easily change between them in a year. Couldn't it? ⏞⏞⏞⏞⏞⏞⏞⏞⏞⏞⏞⏞⏞⏞⏞⏞ 🗓️New chapters every Friday and Saturday. Mondays, if the weekends escape me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Next updates: 05/29, 30 & 31

Prompt ​21. You wake from a dream about a perfect faceless soulmate, only to meet someone in real life who feels exactly like them and somehow knows things you've never told anyone. **Still Hearts Beat Deep** Lucia Natalia and Orion "Ryan" Valentino leave Chicago for the sun-soaked promise of Fort Lauderdale - she's chasing a career in marine biology, he's on the verge of a Discovery Channel deal for his nature content. Life is perfect until Ryan vanishes during a solo trip to the Everglades. His car is found. His canoe turns up empty. His body never does. Alone in a state that was supposed to be their fresh start, Lucia is drowning in grief - until the dreams begin. A figure made of light appears to her every night, faceless and warm, asking her what's wrong. She can't remember the full conversations when she wakes, only the feeling of safety and the scent of cashmere and sea salt lingering on her skin. The figure becomes clearer each night. Hands she doesn't recognize. A voice she can almost place. A name he tries to say before she's pulled awake - "Ma-" When she meets Maverick Eris in a Fort Lauderdale restaurant, everything about him feels impossibly familiar. His voice. His hands. The way he knows her favorite dish before she says a word. He's magnetic, wealthy, and carries his own grief - a story about someone he lost, a place he visits to face his fears. He shows her a Florida she didn't know existed. Boat parties and coral reefs and sunsets over Biscayne Bay. He makes the water feel safe again. He even takes her to the Everglades, and for the first time, she doesn't flinch. But behind the penthouse walls and abalone shells and crystals he calls "spiritual," there are rooms Lucia hasn't opened. And when she finally does, the truth waiting inside will rewrite every moment she thought was love. Some hearts were never meant to beat together. Some just beat until they're told to stop.

In a dark Benedictine Abbey, high in the cold mountains of Helvetia, where stone and earth remember older laws than kings, a legendary weapon rests in silence. It lies within the Kloster Einsiedeln, a mountain abbey sworn to the Cantors of the region of Oath Fellowship, its fresco painted walls with tales of a history that is much different than the truth it conceals. For generations, the weapon has slept beneath legend, its purpose misremembered, its history softened into a heroic myth. But weapons do not forget. When the lies that bound it begins to unravel, and the abbey's sealed records stir, old borders awaken. Wolves who once feared only the glint of steel begin to fear something else as the weapon reveals what it was never meant to be. Not an instrument of slaughter, but a measure of law. What rises in its wake is neither hunter nor monster, but something the world has not known for centuries. The Wardens of the Limes. Some weapons are forged to kill. Others are forged to decide. This weapon requires HEIRS. And Miteinander; working together. Or it won't work at all... The surprising heirs of the weapon, rivals since childhood, staunch upholders of the lies believed throughout family generations, must now overcome, to step into their chosen destiny. "They stand at the Threshold." ✠ ✠ ✠ ONC26 Prompt # 1. Two rivals discover they're the chosen heirs to a legendary weapon that will only activate if they work together. Some Historical references: The Kloster Einsiedeln Abbey was first founded as a Benedictine monastery in 934 CE on the site of a former hermitage. Its origins, however, date back to approximately 835 CE, when the hermit monk Saint Meinrad first established a small cell in the "Dark Forest" of the region. LIMES definition: Latin. Originally meaning a path or boundary line. A limes (plural: limites) was a fortified border or frontier system of the Roman Empire.

In the shadowy woods of summer camp, Kim's world is shattered when her quirky, unpredictable camper, Sarah, attacks her under a full moon. ​Surviving the mauling against all odds was just the beginning. Something has changed deep within Kim. ​Back home in the rugged mountain town of Alden, Colorado, Kim grapples with raging new senses, a fractured family, and a high school full of plastic smiles. But a deeper rot is festering in Alden. Something ancient and evil has arrived, a creature that wears her classmates' faces and feeds on their agony. ​To survive, Kim must unravel the mystery of the monster stalking the hallways while fighting to control the predator growing inside her. With the help of an unlikely group of outsiders, she is racing against a ticking clock to find the beast's heart before the next full moon-and before the monster in her, or the one in her school, consumes everything she loves. ​Will Kim be able to stop the horror without, or will she lose herself to the hunger within? If you're enjoying the story and want to help me keep writing these characters I love, you can support me here: PayPal → https://paypal.me/nerdaddiction Thank you for reading. It means a lot.

Erotica, Homicide, Paranormal. Ten years ago, Lucian, a rookie cop, experienced his first crime scene. It was the forty-ninth victim of a serial killing spree. Over the course of a decade, forty-nine young, beautiful women had met their ends, all with the same cause of death: EXTREME SEXUAL EUPHORIA. Ten years later, Lucian, now a disheartened captain in the homicide division, took on a new case. This time, the victims were two young men. And on the autopsy report, chillingly familiar words stared back at him: EXTREME SEXUAL EUPHORIA. The long-forgotten cold case had resurfaced. And along with it, so did the little girl Lucian had adopted from that crime scene ten years ago: Reya. *This book includes graphic depictions of violence but not limited to: sexual, verbal, emotional and physical abuse. Reader discretion is advised.

The Crawlers roam a dead world-vast, biomechanical cities fleeing a forgotten past. Beneath one such city, Solin discovers a sealed chamber that should no longer exist. What he finds inside doesn't speak-but it remembers him. Now, the past is stirring. And it's not done with him yet.

A dense forest at the edge of the village of Aquaridge as always been off-limits, shrouded in myths of enchantment and danger. When a series of disaster threatens their village, an ancient prophecy points the grove as the source of salvation.Lyra must venture into the mystical woods, face it's creatures, and uncover the truths to save her village.

I am your sword. I am your flame. I am your death. Hate. Fear. Faith. The Oath of the Sacrament. The heir to the Great Mother Wolf lies gravely ill, stricken by a curse whispered to be unbreakable. To save the future of the Church's Legacy, 1st Company Alpha Aurora Augustina is chosen to hunt its source: an ancient vampire believed to have perished long ago. Armed with Hate as her sword and Faith as her shield, Aurora must traverse the bloodstained world of Homicidium Cruentum to confront the Alien Vampire whose existence threatens the very heart of the Great Church of the Sacrament. But on a planet steeped in death and treachery, the line between salvation and damnation is razor-thin. Can a mother's love defeat death itself? Prepare for a tale of Genocide, War, and Werewolves. She is the Alpha-unstoppable, unbroken, and out for blood.